[muawiyah]

This was one of the best science stories of the year. It explained the near extinction of the Clovis culture, the elimination of saber toothed tigers and mastadons, the clogging of the St. Lawrence valley with ice (from the break up of the residual icecap in Canada), the Younger Dryas event, and most of all, why there was gold on top of the hills in Southern Indiana (rather than down in the valleys or deep inside the hillsides like it normally is everywhere else on Earth).

Ain't every day you get one like that!

[UCANSEE2]

This was one of the best science stories of the year.

Yes. And a whole lot likelier than global warming from SUV's.

[djf]

Yup.

The early explorers/gold miners in Alaska were amazed to find what has been called “muck”.

Hard pack of mud, plant debris, and bones, mashed together and mixed up like it had gone through a cosmic blender.

More and more evidence to support the theory that there was some kind of cataclysmic event, maybe not worldwide, but a large part of it focused on northern North America, that coincided with the beginning of the end of the last ice age.